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Re: SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Motion-Still

Re: SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Motion-Still

Thank you, Jundo. This talk really hits home with me today as I am snowed-in
at my parents house (they have gas in case the power goes out) and my wife
is stuck at work (nurse) til all this melts. Personalities are beginning to rub
together and start a little fire. I got on the computer to get a moment away
from all that, and found this wonderful talk. Emptiness...in snow...in sun...
in noise...in silence...I go now to bow to a buddha made of snow...moment
by moment, he too is melting into nothingness, emptiness.

Re: SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Motion-Still

Love it... great talk. Reminds me of a parable, I can't remember the origin:

A man can't stand the noise of the city, the cars, the people, the machinery. He just wants to find some serenity. So he moves to the country. But soon, the sound of roosters and the cows, and the coyotes and the owls, get to him. So he finally abandons the country, moving into a cave in a remote mountain region. "Finally, peace and quiet!" he thinks. But soon, he's driven mad by the sound of dripping water in the cave...

All of which is to say, the only real serenity is right where you are. As Robert Persig said, "The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there."

Re: SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Motion-Still

A quick quote from this talk...

"So, for that reason, I hope everyone will sit, once in awhile, in a truly disturbing, disagreeable, ugly, noisy, smelly, busy, and distracting place. In a stinking garbage dump, next to a construction site with jackhammers pounding, at an Ozzy Osbourne concert, in a game room, while crushed in a crowded city bus or parked in a parking lot off a busy highway."

What a powerful illustration of the virtues of this online sangha... the echoes and imprints of all the voices here resonate for everyone to know... the members past, present and future, "just here, just now, just this." Transcending time and space.

This talk really resonates with me. One of the many things that drew me to Zen practise is the hope of finding a little bit of silence in the day but as I've been practising I've observed that there is a silence and stillness even within the noise and activity of everyday life.

This talk really resonates with me. One of the many things that drew me to Zen practise is the hope of finding a little bit of silence in the day but as I've been practising I've observed that there is a silence and stillness even within the noise and activity of everyday life.